It’s Never about the Other Person
As much as we want our problems and frustrations to be about someone else, they never are.
Fortunately, when it comes to knowing peace, this is really good news (like, really).
It means peace is always within reach, no matter what we’re experiencing.
Ego leads us to believe that peace lies in conditions outside of ourselves being met…
We become annoyed when “so and so” does “xyz”; therefore they should stop (so that we feel peace).
Or we feel that we need “xyz” to be in place to feel peace.
The list of “shoulds” and “should nots” can go on and on when ego is laying claim to the conditions that must be met for peace to be known.
However, if the conditions of peace lie in something outside of us being a certain way, lasting peace could never be known.
Therefore, the path to peace is to resolve all frustration within ourselves, regardless of whether or not our external conditions change.
As with any aspect of ourselves that has been run by ego’s thinking, a reversal in thought is required to heal the error in our perception…
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